On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 03:08:50PM -0700, James E Wilson wrote: > Is it possible that something changed on Diego's machine? Such as a new > binutils, or a new kernel, etc? > Yes. I rebooted the machine into a new kernel on 2005-03-31 (2.6.10-1.770_FC3). The slowdown coincided with the box being rebooted into the new kernel:
Date Bootstrap time (secs) 2005-03-29 5,663 2005-03-30 5,704 <-- 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 2005-03-31 7,026 <-- 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 2005-04-01 7,768 [ ... ] 2005-04-06 8,048 2005-04-07 8,197 Bootstrap times have been slowly creeping up since then. However, build times for SPEC haven't changed much. It could be that the new kernel is not too good with heavy I/O. I've got binutils-2.15.92.0.2-5. Dunno if that has been recently upgraded. I'm rebooting the machine into the previous kernel right now to see if it changes things. Tomorrow's run will use kernel 2.6.10-1.760_FC3. Another thing, has our library code base (libjava, libstdc++) grown significantly lately? Diego.
